Rock Gardens
The Love of Rock Gardens
Why do we love rock gardens and rock gardening? Rock gardens are often a peaceful and relaxing places. Rock gardeners love to garden! They combine diverse, flowering plants with the calming color and nature of rocks to create art, often having a wonderful sense of transquility. Once established, rock gardens can be designed to be low-maintenance and drought-tolerant.
Rock gardens are diverse in nature. Some mimic what is found in nature. Some rock gardeners enjoy a gardening challenge. They create miniture landscapes or plant challenging plants to grow. There are many kinds of rock gardens containing plants from the high alpine to succulents and cactus from arid climates.
To better understand the many kinds of rock gardens, in the Colorado Rocky Mountain region are numerous public rock gardens that you can visit. Whether you live in the densely populated city, or in a spacious rural setting, there a style of rock garden than can suite your situation.
